“For all who do evil hate the light…so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light …” (John 3:20-21) It was a rainy Sunday in 1969, and my 5-year-old brother ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A politician is accused of lying about whether he had sex with a woman not his wife. Another is accused of ...

Sin: Ask anyone what it is, and you'll get as many definitions as people you query. But are all sins equally bad? Will one be as condemned for complimenting a co-worker on a bad haircut as for lying ...

Seven were the sins—pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth —that the early Christian theologians labeled capital, or deadly, on the ground that they led to the commission of other ...

A Vatican official has listed drugs, pollution and genetic manipulations as well as social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behaviour. Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti said in an interview ...

Archbishop Michael Jackels recently weighed in on the subject of denying Communion to public sinners. Jackels, the archbishop of Dubuque, wrote that the desire to “repair the scandal of pro-choice ...

If cigarettes really are cancer-breeding coffin nails, is it a sin to smoke them? Last week, in Notre Dame’s Ave Maria magazine, a top-ranking canon-law expert, the Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, dean ...

Remember the song lyrics: "What the world needs now is love, sweet love!" It's hard to disagree with such a sentiment, especially at the present time when nations and people are at war with each other ...